curiouser and curiouser

I have never been able to figure out why so many love to hate JonBenet, meaning those that speak derogatorily of a brutally murdered 6 year old. Makes me wonder. There is the one extreme - those creeps that fantasize and covert from afar with the other end of the spectrum being those that seem to somehow hold a six year old responsible for her own murder.

The article below is a new angle and low in negativity. Apparently horribly miscast as the muse for a 1985 production of Alice in Wonderland, this movie occurred long before JonBenet was even born and a nearly a decade before the vicious murder - -

Alice, Bratty in Wonderland
Published in the Daily Beast
by Nicole LaPorte

"From Lewis Carroll to Tim Burton, Alice has always been one of fiction's biggest pills. Nicole LaPorte traces her evolution from Victorian know-it-all to '50s princess to JonBenét clone....

Alice entered her JonBenét Ramsey stage in 1985—of course, on American television. In this small-screen movie, directed by Harry Harris, Alice is a walking American Girl doll, played by Natalie Gregory, and she's so young that the script has her state her age, 7 and a half, though that feels like a stretch. Here, she transforms into that classic, distinctly American child who is alternately cute and bratty and, ultimately, supremely annoying....[...read more]